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8m073 LOST HORIZON paper banner R48 Frank Capra's greatest production, Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt!

Date Sold 7/5/2015
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A 1948 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Movie Paper Banner (measures 24" x 80" [61 x 203 cm]) (Learn More)

Lost Horizon, the classic 1937 Frank Capra Shangri-La romantic fantasy religious mystery adventure melodrama ("Might spectacle of human emotions"; "Frank Capra's mightiest production becomes the greatest entertainment in all screen history!"; "Mightiest of all motion pictures!"; "Frank Capra's Greatest Production"; "Columbia's great Adventure of Tibet"; "James Hilton's immortal novel becomes epic entertainment!"; "From the novel by James Hilton"; "Screen Play by Robert Riskin"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a plane with a group of very different English passengers, including two brothers, that crash lands in the Himalayas, and they find a group of Tibetan monks who live in a peaceful paradise where everyone seems to live forever, but will they stay, or will they try to return to England?) starring Ronald Colman (as Robert Conway), ("and a notable cast" including) Jane Wyatt, John Howard (as George Conway), Margo (as Maria), Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, Isabel Jewell, H.B. Warner (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Chang), and Sam Jaffe (as the "High Lama")
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Important Added Info: Note that in the 1910s through 1930s, studios would make large cloth banners that movie theaters could hang up above their lobbies (or above their entrances). In the early 1940s, they changed to making paper banners (perhaps there was a cloth shortage during World War II). At first, they were made of one-sheet-like paper, and they didn't survive very well, and they apparently were not very popular, because very few survive. At some point around 1946, they changed to making them out of a heavy paper stock, similar to that used for 40x60s, but measuring 24" x 80". Many people think these became very popular at drive-in theaters, which were then expanding at a major pace throughout the country. The paper banners were very popular until the late 1960s, and then far fewer were made (perhaps corresponding to the decline in popularity of drive-in theaters). We have been consigned a wonderful collection of 133 of these paper banners, and we are auctioning them all, in 133 separate auctions. This is a great opportunity to acquire one or many of these rare posters!

Condition: good to very good. The poster was used for a later re-release, and there is a re-release NSS written in the left and right blank borders. There are many scuffs and stains scattered throughout the poster, but fortunately, there are not nearly as many in the photographic inset image (see our image). There is a 3" tear in the lower left border. There is brown paper tape on the back of the left and right blank borders, but they were not put there for a restoration purpose.
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